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Elias Haslanger

Elias Haslanger is a tenor saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator whose Austin catalog includes leader groups and Church on Monday.

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Career Overview

About Elias Haslanger

Haslanger’s artist catalog identifies an Austin saxophonist, composer, and bandleader and separates a sequence of leader albums from collaborative releases. Texas State University documents his composition study, performance history, and educational work.[1][2]

The catalog spans standards, original quartet and quintet writing, and Church on Monday, an organ-centered Austin group with both studio and live releases. Later work with trumpeter Mike Sailors appears as a separate collaboration rather than an edition of Church on Monday.[1]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Leader, tenor saxophonist, and composer

Elias Haslanger leader groups

Haslanger’s quartet and quintet settings carry original writing and repertory across several albums.[1]

Co-leader, tenor saxophonist, and composer

Church on Monday

The Austin organ group has its own studio and live releases within Haslanger’s artist catalog.[1]

Co-leader and tenor saxophonist

Elias Haslanger Meets Mike Sailors

The collaborative project pairs Haslanger’s tenor with Sailors’s trumpet in a separate ensemble setting.[1]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

1994

Standards

Leader and tenor saxophonist

The early leader album establishes Haslanger’s approach to repertory in a small-group setting.[1]

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2006

Dream Story

Leader, tenor saxophonist, and composer

Dream Story centers Haslanger’s original writing within his documented leader chronology.[1]

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2012

Church on Monday

Co-leader, tenor saxophonist, and composer

The self-titled recording introduces the named organ group as a distinct collaborative project.[1]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Elias Haslanger on Bandcamp

Stream leader albums, Church on Monday, live sessions, and the Mike Sailors collaboration.

Live at Monks

Watch a complete artist-authorized Austin performance featuring Haslanger’s tenor-led group.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

Fri, Oct 16, 7:30 PM

Elias Haslanger Quartet

Monks Jazz Club · Austin

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Fri, Oct 16, 9:30 PM

Elias Haslanger Quartet

Monks Jazz Club · Austin

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Evidence-Based Connections

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Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Artist-run leader and collaborative catalog

    Elias Haslanger

  2. [2] University biography and education history

    Texas State University